The Music of Benjamin Britten / Edition 1

by Peter Evans

Overview

This comprehensive guide to Britten's musical achievement discusses all the published compositions in subdivisions of genre and period, and devotes a separate chapter to each opera. With the help of over 300 music examples and diagrams, Evans demonstrates Britten's mastery of the art of composition. Since this book's first appearance in 1979, Britten's publishers have made available a considerable number of works withheld during the composer's lifetime; some are juvenilia, but others date from as late as the Peter Grimes period. In a postscript to this edition, Peter Evans assesses the creative stature of these works and their significance in Britten's development. The catalogue of works now includes these additional titles, and the selective bibliography has been revised.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198165903
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/27/1996
Series:	Clarendon Paperbacks
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	602
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.13(h) x 1.27(d)

About the Author

Southampton University

Editorial Reviews

"There is no work about which he does not have something valuable and stimulating to say."—Michael Kennedy, The Musical Times

"With insight of such quality expressed in prose of such clarity, the book belongs to the best tradition of musical criticism."—Philip Brett, Notes

"It has sent me back to the music with keener ears and eyes....Highly recommended as a most intelligent and musically sensitive study."—Clifford Bartlett, Brio

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